Scientists hope the sturgeon known as the Yangtze's last giant and other rare species may return to their breeding grounds as a result China has demolished 300 dams and shut down most of the small ...

Map of the Yangtze River Delta, within which the Tai Lake Basin is characterised by low-lying lands. Source: Nolf et al., Delta Management in Evolution: A Comparative Review of the Yangtze River ...

Regions that rely on the Yangtze, China's longest river, are having to deploy pumps and cloud-seeding rockets as a long drought depletes water levels and threatens crops, and a heatwave is set to ...

Item 1 of 13 A tree trunk lies on the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels in Chongqing, China, August 18, 2022.

The Yangtze River dolphin, also known as the baiji dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was a white, fresh-water dolphin native to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in China as recently as the 1990s. The ...

This vast river – the biggest in Asia and third longest in the world – is also hugely important because of the variety of animals and plants living in or around it. But that wildlife has been ...

The finless porpoises used to live across the entire Yangtze River, which stretches from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea. Now, there are fewer than 1,800 individuals left in the wild.

The Yangtze River is shrinking as drought disrupts the world's No. 2 economy. August 19, 2022 5:18 AM ET. By . The Associated Press Enlarge this image.

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

Yangtze River at record low as China attempts to ‘induce’ rainfall with cloud-seeding planes. Parts of China face historic heatwave and droughts while others are severely flooded.